Grad Student - AARC

Sarah Halabe

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Sarah Halabe is a PhD student in Ethnic Studies, where she studies US Third Worldism, anti-imperial student movements, and leftist Asian American political formations of the late 60s and 70s. Her research specifically looks at the role of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organizations in the Asian American Political Movement and how these groups were theorizing the national liberation struggles happening throughout the Third World. Sarah was born and raised in the Bay Area and received her B.A. in English and American Studies from Scripps College.

Zachary Lorico Hertz

Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Zachary Lorico Hertz is a Ph.D. student in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is particularly interested in understanding how race and class identity develop, are expressed through political behavior, and intersect with power in local politics. In his research, he uses causal inference methods and survey data to study the effects an increasingly diverse and partisan electorate will have on representation and sub-national institutions. His current project uses both experimental and observational methods to assess the...

Cathy Hu

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Cathy Hu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of punishment and society, social movements, and political sociology. Currently, she is working on a qualitative project examining criminal and racial justice activism in the Bay Area. This project focuses on the county criminal court as a new site of intervention for social movements from across the political spectrum. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center and received a BA in Sociology from Rice...

Victoria Huynh

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Jessica Jiang

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Hoyun Kim

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Hoyun Kim is a PhD candidate in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the UC Berkeley School of Education. Her research centers on public education policy and systems, examining their implications for college access and student agency to and through college. Her recent work applies an organizational lens to the relationship between policies aimed at improving equity in higher education and the community college system.

Her interests are informed by her experiences attending multiple public schools and hearing different narratives around merit and learning in the United...

Jin Hyung Lim

Jin Hyung is a PhD student in the School Psychology Program at the Berkeley School of Education. As an international student from South Korea, he is passionate about promoting the mental health of Asian American students, teachers, and families. Guided by the social-ecological framework and resilience theory, he studies how school and community resources can function as promotive and protective factors for the psychological well-being of Asian Americans.

Arianna Lunow-Luke

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Arianna Lunow-Luke (she/her) is a PhD student in the department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where she is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. She is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Food Systems through the Berkeley Food Institute. Born and raised in Kailua, Oʻahu, Ari is a fourth generation Chinese settler of Kanaka Maoli lands in Hawaiʻi. She received her BA in Biology and Ethnic Studies from Brown University.

Ari’s research is centered on Asian settler colonialism and multiculturalism in Hawaiʻi. She is particularly...

Sun Moon

Sociology & Demography, UC Berkeley

Lisa Ng

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley